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Show SUGAR BEET IN EXPERIMENT Net Profit of $24.82 Represents About Best That Can Be Expected From Culture. This Is the time to think seriously about hauling out the manure and applying ap-plying It to the beet land for by this time wo ere all ngreed that we cannot can-not keep on growing Hi;; ar beets without with-out replenishing the soil. We have had plenty of demonstrations to cinch this manure agreement so that there need no longer b any question about It. In all the sue.nr-eoated talk wo gel from the trust nothing Is ever satd about tho dlaastrous deterioration of our soiln under culture and It Is a matter mat-ter wo can no longer sidetrack. Last year In (Hero county a field containing contain-ing 51 ui res of cultivated land was planted to beets. The soil U black, heavy adobe, easily cracked when becoming be-coming dry no that frequent Irrigation Is necessary. The preparation of the seed bed, seeding, cultivation and Irrigation Ir-rigation were carried on promptly and thoroughly rigm-dlcss of expense, ns II was desired to raise the crop according ac-cording to the standard method of the valley. Ten acres In this field was fertilized with ten tons of stock yard manure to the acre during the previous winter. win-ter. On these ten acres which averaged aver-aged 17. B per cent, sugar about two acres were sprayed with double strength bordeaux mixture In order to prevent leaf spot. While the disease was not entirely prevented it was checked to considerable degree and the 2S.1 tons harvested from this part of the field containing 1.92 acres averaged aver-aged 1 4 64 tons the acre with 18.1 per cent, sugar. The second patch also contained ten ctcs and was fertilized with ten tons of lime the acre from the factory settling basin but not manured. The Increase of 6.3 tons on each acre of this land was very marked. Still It must be suld that where the lime was used more Irrigation was needed during dur-ing the season. The third patch containing con-taining five acres waa not manured or limed. The yield was a fraction less than ten tons the acre and probably prob-ably represents very closely what the. wholo field would have yielded If no manure or lime had been supplied. The remainder of the field contained con-tained 29 acres, which were manured with ten tons of stock yard manure the acre. This tract showed an Increase In-crease of 2. 36 tons the acre over the adjoining tract not manured. The total cost to grow and harvest theso beets, not Including rent, was $45.22 the acre, which left a net profit of f 24.82 and this result comes very near representing about the very best that can be expected from bet culture In this country when tho best efforts are put forth to bring a crop through. |